The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the 2Sth, for troops to protect his court,
which convenes on August 3. Judge Cole
and others feel certain there will be blood
shed unless troops are at hand. Friends OF
Craig Tolliver are already collecting in the
neighborhood.
DIR. Won SCHLoEzER, Prussian Minister
to the Vatican, has presented to the Pope
snexquisitely wrought mitre, adorned with
rubies, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds,
and accompanied by an autograph letter
from the Emperor of Germany, rendering
the bejeweled offering as his jubilee gift to
the Holy Father.
JOHN BRIGHT exhorts the electors of
Bridgeton to vote against George Otto
Trevelyan for Parliament.
BY an accident on the Baltimore 81 Ohio
railway at West Newton, Pa, on the 10Th,
fireman named Orbin was killed and
Engineer Gilland was fatally injured.
THE Shah of Persia will start in April
next upon a six months tour Of the indus
trial centers of Europe.
c. HENINGER, aged eighty-seven, of
Brooklyn, suicided, on the Goth, by shoot
ing himself through the head. He had
been troubled with softening of the brain
for some time.
DANIEL SHEEHAN, nephew of Mr.. Shee-
han, a member of Parliament for Kerry,
has been arrested at Killarney under the
Crimes act. He is chaged with assaulting
bailiffs.
DANIEL LYONS, the murderer of Athlete
Quinn, arrived in New York on the Doth
from Pittsburgh. Subsequently he waived
examination and was held for the grand
jury.
PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG has been
appointed commander Of the British IRON
clad Dreadnaught, over the heads of scores
of seniors. 1t is expected that the Radi
calls will criticise the appointment in Par
lament.
IT has been discovered that Calvin Rigg,
a school-tax collector for the town of Con-
shohocken, Pa, from 1882 to 1885, is short
in his accounts for the years 1SS4-S5 to the
amount of $4,000.
THE Rockland cafe and large clambake
pavilion connected with Hotel Nantasket
at Nantasket Beach, Mass, were burned
on the evening of the Goth. The great ho-
| tel itself was saved with great difficulty.
Loss about $4,000; insured.
A DARING and carefully planned rob-
berry was perpetrated at the Chicago,
Burlington G Quincy passenger depot at
Des Moines, Ia, on the Doth, one of the
| light-fngered gentry getting away with the
money! in the safe during the temporary alb
sence of the ticket-seller.
THREE men were seriously injured by a
premature blast at Burden furnace, Hud-
son, N. Y, on the Doth. They were still
alive at last accounts, with faint hopes of
recovery. The accident was the result of
their own carelessness.
REVEREND MOTHER SUPERIOR NJ. B.
| LYNCH died at the Ursuline convent in
| Columbia, S. c., ON the night of the 2Sth.
The deceased was the first mother superior
of Usuline nuns in the South, having be-
come a nun in Cincinnati in 1877.
| AN elevator in the Bremen shoe and slip
per factory in st. Louis fell on the evening
of the Goth with load of passengers. Two
of them, Alex. Farrar and Annie Moran,
were fatally injured. ..-.. ......fr
THE President has come to the conclusion
that he can as easily snswer written in
vitation to visit city as he can respond
to long speeches Of visiting delegations
conveying such invitations, and he has
begged the Memphis citizens, who threat
! ened descent on the White House, not to
make it.
JOSEPH RICH, farmer returning home
from Richmond, Ind, on the 10Th, in q
wagon, together with his wife, baby and
wife's mother, attempted to cross the rail
road track ahead of a passenger train. AS
a result, Rich, his baby and his wife's
mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich
terribly mangled.
IT is reported that Bishop Loughlin OF
Brooklyn has been ordered to Rome to ex.
plain why he has disobeyed papal man.
date.
CINCINNATI has organized a COMMITTEES
to invite. President Cleveland to visit thai
city during his fall tour.
THE fint-glass factories in Pittsburgh
started up on the LIST, giving employment
to over two thousand men.
AFTER many years of litigation tn,
Bethunes have been ordered by the cour
to surrender Blind Tom to representative
of his mother, and to pay $1,000 for hi
} past services. The Bethunes have made
fortune out of the poor negro's wonderful
musical abilities and have held him as
chattel.
DIVER Bros "invncible" three-year
old, Hanover, was beaten at Monmouth
park on the Both by Laggard, rank out
slider.
For the week ended the 30th Chicag
lost little ground in the League base bal
championship series, Detroit maintainin,
the lead by two games. In the Associa
ton the st. Louis Browns increased thei
lead somewhat, having taken tire
straight from Baltimore.
WYLE, the Scotch ex-sheep herder, an,
now the champion checker player of til
world, has just finished an Australian
tour in which he played 237 games, woI
223, drew IL and lost but one-to PatteI
son, the champion OF Victoria.
LOOMS DEXTER was killed and about
hundred persons injured during the prog
ress of a storm at David City, Ncb., ON th
SOth. Property also suffered severely,
THE Columbian Bank of Philadelphia
failed to open its doors on the Both. TIL
collapse is attributed to the Ives-Garret
deal failing TO be consummated.
Mr.. BLAINE is said to be enjoying hin
self so well in Scotland that his visit wi
in all probability be prolonged.
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